 | John White - Great Britain - 1836 - 234 pages
...place east or west from the first meridian : the greatest longitude is one hundred and eighty degrees. Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the equator : the greatest latitude is ninety degrees. On the map of the world, the degrees of latitude are marked... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1839 - 348 pages
...the south ; the right-band side towards the east ; and the left-hand side towards the west, (s) 3. Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the equator ; Longitude is its distance east or west from the first meridian, (t) 4. The latitude upon maps is... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1840 - 132 pages
...between the tropics and the polar circles, and two frigid zones between the polar circles and the poles. Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the Equator ; consequently places on the Equator have no latitude. Longitude is the distance of a place east or... | |
 | Alexander Reid - Geography - 1842 - 164 pages
...minute into 60 seconds". The equator divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres. Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. Circles drawn parallel to the equator are called parallels of latitude. The four remarkable parallels... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1843 - 120 pages
...east is towards the right hand ; the west, towards the left hand ; the north, above; the south, below. Latitude* is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian, f The earth has two motions,... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1845 - 138 pages
...usually the north, the bottom the south, the right hand side the east, and the left hand side the west.* Latitude-]- is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. Longitude is the distance of a place east or west from the first meridian. The earth has two motions... | |
 | S. Wilson - 1849 - 156 pages
...and the circle round the south pole is called the antarctic, because it is opposite to the arctic. Latitude is the distance of a place, north or south, from the equator towards either pole ; therefore no place can have more than 90° of latitude. Longitude is the distance... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1849 - 82 pages
...distance from the two poles. The equator divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres. Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. . Circles drawn parallel to the equator are called parallels of latitude. The four remarkable parallels... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - 156 pages
...midday. The method of finding north, &c. by the pole-star will be described in the Astronomy. 101. LATITUDE is the distance of a place north or south...degrees, minutes, &c. along the meridian of the place. 102. As each parallel is everywhere at the same distance from the equator, all the places on it have... | |
 | Thomas Bowman (M.A.) - Geography - 1850 - 152 pages
...number of degrees corresponding to that parallel, which number will be the latitude required. NB — Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the Equator, and is measured on a meridian. The greatest latitude that any place can have, is 90° ; the North and... | |
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It divides the earth into two equal parts, which are called the northern and southern HEMISPHERES. LATITUDE is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. 
